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Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. "The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." "Good thing, too," reply Landon. "It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't.

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Jasper Fforde

First Among Sequels

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Most girls prefer flowers over trees.' I brush my fingers on the petals." These orange flowers blossom quickly. Thay speak of passion. Of beauty." I take a witheting flower that had dropped to the ground and worry it between my fingers. "But they don't last; they wither so easily. Flowers have limited growth. A tree might not speak of passion but sturdiness. Yet it grows higher and lasts more. Some of these trees have been here before I was born and they'll be here once I'm gone.

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Mya Robarts

The V Girl

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All the various time travel devices used by Verne and Bert were stored in the repository, Poe explained, including the ones that had never quite worked as they were meant to. There was one that resembled a blue police box from London___tolen by a doctor with delusions of grandeur,_ said Poe__ne that was simply a large, transparent sphere___reated by a scientist with green skin and too much ego,_ said Verne__nd one that was rather ordinary by comparison.__his one looks like an automobile,_ John said admiringly, __ith wings.___he doors open that way for a reason,_ Verne explained, __e just never figured out what it was. The inventor of this particular model tried integrating his designs into a car, an airplane, and even a steam engine train. He was running a crackpot laboratory in the Arizona desert, and he never realized that it was not his inventions themselves, but his proximity to some sort of temporal fluctuation in the local topography, that allowed them to work._ __hat happened to him?_ asked Jack.__e__ get the machines up to one hundred and six miles per hour,_ said Bert, __nd then he__ run out of fuel and promptly get arrested by whatever constabulary had been chasing him. The sad part was that Jules figured out if he__ just gone two miles an hour faster, he__ likely have been successful in his attempt.

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James A. Owen

The Dragon's Apprentice